Business Mentorship Program

The Mentorship Program matches members one-to-one with a mentor based on members' career interests. Our SWIB mentors are current GSB women, business professionals and alumni from around the bay area who come from a wide range of companies in banking, consulting, entrepreneurship, marketing, nonprofit, law, retail, and biotech. Past mentors have hailed from: Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, Barclays, Franklin Templeton, Bain, Cornerstone, Google, Facebook, Intel, Macy's, and more. The Mentorship Program organizes quarterly panel and mixer events for all program participants. Additionally, we encourage mentors and mentees to meet up and keep in touch on their own to learn about the industry of interest in a personal and meaningful way, get advice in preparing for internship and job recruitment; potentially job shadow/intern for mentors, and build their networks of businesswomen.

“Business Mochas”
Open to all SWIB members and with a limited sign up. 1-2 Business professionals meet a group of 20 SWIB members and tell them about their own career stories, their current job and advice them on issues women face in business.

“Business Shadowing”
Open to SWIB mentees only. The company decides the size of the group they would like to host. Business professionals assigns business analysts at their company for mentees to do job shadowing and give a company tour. Internship coordinators or the HR representative gives an introduction to the company and its position in the industry.

“Business One-on-One”
Open to SWIB mentees only. They are matched with mentors from a business field they are considering a career in. Mentors from these businesses meet with their selected mentees minimum of 2 times face-to-face to work on their career planning, resumes and interviews. The specific dates are determined between the individual mentors and their mentees, while the tentative dates are between November-January for internships and September-October for full-time.